For greatest impact, group must back both challenge-driven and investigator-led projects, say experts
The European Innovation Council must sail forward on the tension between bottom-up and top-down research projects, independent experts have told the European Commission.
The EIC funds the growth of tech-based businesses and is currently in a pilot phase. Next year it is due to expand into a fully-fledged funder under the EU’s flagship Horizon Europe R&D funding scheme.